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University of the Arts students hack Eames classics
By squirrelbait - Oct 11, 2007
Today, a group of University of the Arts ID students frolicked to a crit, where their Eames Hack project was the focus du jour--part of a a three day charette based on remake and DIY culture. The Eames Hack team, Jared Delorenzo, Tim Peet, Alexandra Temple Powell, Tom Reynolds, Alie Thomer, and Andrew McCandlish, presented two examples: a molded plywood dining-turned-high chair and the classic shell so cleverly transformed into a toilet-top throne. (Dudes better put the seat back, um, down...)
The Eames High Chair and Eames Toilet Seat "are about breaking the status surrounding high design objects. Through physically invasive alterations, these once iconic, elite, forms are liberated from their old, restrained image. The project is not a critique of the Eames, but rather a fulfillment of their original ideals."
Add to their crit in the comments section if you so desire.
squirrelbait
Jeannie is a true jack-of-all trades, looks forward to a day gone swimmingly, and finds joy in all things awesome. Brilliant art, rocking the renegade music scene, conjuring up haute designs, other people's hot designs, tasty salad, trashy magazines and unicorns are some of the many things she is passionate about.
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11 Comments
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Wonderfully imaginative. A high chair every baby should have. I'm not sure about the toilet seat.!Report as spam
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Hey toilet seat is fantastic idea!congrats
It will be really very comfortable and more cleanness will maintain.
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sorry, but an actual Eames high chair would make design-statusy parents so giddy, there'd be Bugaboo gridlock in the aisles at DWR.!Report as spam
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Clever, if not creative.
But WHY WHY is it necessary to obscure a simple design task under a mountain of pretentious theoretical justification that sounds like bad socialist rhertoric?
I just grabed a speed by Lenin off the net, replaced "Communism" with "Design", etc. Sound familiar?
"Design must be made comprehensible to the masses of the workers so that they will regard it as their own cause. That task is being poorly accomplished, and thousands of mistakes are being made. We make no secret of the fact. To us, that is no longer a programme, a theory, or a task to be accomplished; it has become a matter of actual and practical development. We must point out what is bad, so as to avoid it in future."
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The toilet terrifies my inner child...!Report as spam
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aren't we tired of object puns yet?!Report as spam
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haha, that's brill. i wouldn't mind my own toilet-top throne.!Report as spam
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Well done, and perhaps more importantly... courageous.!Report as spam
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Nice!!Report as spam
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It's ABOUT TIME!!! Does this mean that the American neuvo-rich will finally stop obsessing over mid-century objects and begin to promote new American design?!Report as spam
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I"m at the crit right now and they rocked the hizzzouse.!Report as spam
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